6 teams out! The Premier League and European competition were almost wiped out, and the fifth place in the Champions League was shattered, and the first league was exaggerated
In the top 8 of the Champions League knockout round, Arsenal lost to Bayern and missed the return to the Champions League semifinals after 15 years, and Manchester City also lost to Real Madrid in a penalty shootout, and the dream of defending the treble was shattered. In the Europa League, Liverpool, West Ham also went out of the competition, and the Premier League teams in this round were almost wiped out.
A total of 7 teams participated in European competition this season, including Manchester City, Arsenal, Manchester United and Newcastle in the Champions League; as early as in the group stage, Manchester United and Newcastle were both out, and they were at the bottom of the group, and they did not even get a place in the Europa League; although Arsenal and Manchester City reached the top 8, and the odds of winning the championship before the top 8 were stable in the top three, but with Bayern and Real Madrid both winning the counterattack, Manchester City and Arsenal also stopped moving forward.
Liverpool did not face much in the first round of the group stage and knockout rounds of the Europa League, but the fatigue caused by the multi-front battle and the weakness of the substitute squad allowed the Reds to lose back-to-back games in a week, West Ham won the UEFA Cup last season and participated in the Champions League as a seeded team, but the Hammers met Bayer Leverkusen, the strongest team of the season, and were knocked out of the last eight. As for Brighton, who are playing in Europe for the first time, they were eliminated by Roma in the first round of the knockout round.
The only team to reach the last four of this season's European competition is Villa, led by former Arsenal boss, who beat Lille on penalties in the last eight of the UEFA Europa League to reach the last four, but this will not change the weak form of the Premier League this season. Compared with the top 4 teams of the Bundesliga 3 and the 3 teams of Serie A, there is only one team left in the Premier League, and in terms of European points, the Premier League is also in a backward situation.
The Bundesliga currently sit second in the European table this season with 17.642 points, and while they are still some way from top-placed Serie A (18.857), they are already 0.642 points clear of third-placed Premier League sides. According to statistics, in the case of West Ham United and Liverpool winning the second leg of the Europa League quarter-finals but were eventually eliminated, even if Villa wins all the games in the Europa League and finally wins the championship, the Premier League can only add another 1.750 points at most, which means that Bayern, Dortmund and Bayer Leverkusen, the three Bundesliga teams still participating in Europe, only need to win two more games in the remaining games, and the Bundesliga can lock up the fifth Champions League place next season. As for Serie A, a fifth Champions League place has already been confirmed after Roma, Atalanta and Fiorentina have collectively qualified for the last four.